It got Facebook to accept the video by putting in squares for the breasts.

The real problem here is not that Facebook draws the line at the wrong
place (though it does). It is that Facebook has so much influence
that organizations such cancer charities feel obliged to publish
through Facebook.

Keep in mind that Facebook has access to this information
regardless of privacy settings, and (thanks to the PAT RIOT Act) Big
Brother has access to all of it too.

Facebook "apps" that some persons run get
access to everything their "friends" make visible to them, and may
hand all that info to a company.

While this article shows that there is currently a way to turn
that off, I expect that Facebook will take any necessary steps to
ensure that most users don't do so. The purpose of those apps is to
get access to that data, and I'm pretty sure that benefit figures, to
Facebook's advantage, into the financial arrangements between the app
developer and Facebook. Facebook will make sure it does not lose that
advantage.

EFF
says that "the answer" is to complain to Facebook. I
suggest another answer: don't put your personal information in
Facebook. If you use Facebook at all, just tell people how to
contact you in other ways.

Facebook's new search interface enables users to
poke
at other users' data in new ways. The ethical import is that it
shows how Facebook itself, and the US government (which can get
Facebook's entire collection of personal data without a court order),
have always been able to poke around in it.

Facebook uses several
tricks to distract people from recognizing
how much access to their personal data they are giving to apps.

In particular, every page with a "like" button still knows who you are.

Facebook made changes in response to this article, to delete one
cookie that identified the users. It seems there are two other
cookies which also identify the user, but Facebook says users should
not object to them because they are made for benign purposes.

If that is true, so what? They still track you, unless you stop using
Facebook, and delete all its cookies for good and all.

But Facebook can track you through your IP address too, if you don't
use TOR to disguise that. To avoid being tracked by Facebook "like"
buttons, you need to block your browser from showing them or accessing
the Facebook page that generates them. This is necessary if you
ever
used Facebook from that IP address, even if you stop using
Facebook, and delete all its cookies for good and all.

Facebook
snoops
on surfers via disqus comments: when a page uses disqus for
comments, the proprietary disqus software loads a Facebook software
package into the browser of every anonymous visitor to the page, and
makes the page's URL available to Facebook.

The US Federal Trade Commission ruled that Facebook's violation of its stated privacy policies was illegal.

It is proper to make Facebook keep its promises, but this does not go far enough to make Facebook acceptable to use. It does not limit Facebook's data collection — for instance, it doesn't stop Facebook from collecting of data about browsing through "Like" buttons. It only limits what Facebook can do with that data, and certainly does not stop Facebook from handing it over to Big Brother under the U SAP AT RIOT act.